Sentence examples similar to remarkable scribe from inspiring English sources
Hanging among whisky memorabilia and stormy seascapes in Kirkwall's Lynnfield Hotel is a remarkable framed document: an elegantly scribed missive addressed to the king of Norway and queen of Denmark, asking them to intercede with the British government, "to safeguard our laws, rights and traditions … until such time as our constitutional status is resolved".
All are fascinating, all speak of the world in which they were made, and all are tangibly, movingly human, thanks to the skills and quirks of the mostly unknown scribes and illuminators whose remarkable creations they are.
In the face of this remarkable development, Henry's human, Cathy (who often refers to herself as "cat scribe") and I teamed up again to document this charming -- and very unexpected -- romance.
The collection mirrors the remarkable diversity of Dunhuang itself, where Buddhists rubbed shoulders with Manicheans, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Jews, and Chinese scribes copied Tibetan prayers that had been translated from Sanskrit by Indian monks working for Turkish khans.
During the 10th century, at the court of Rayy, in Iran, the celebrated minister and arbiter of taste al-Ṣāḥib ibn ʿAbbād gathered around him a remarkable cluster of great writers in numerous fields; the prolific and versatile al-Tawḥīdī could manage only the lowly rank of scribe in such a coterie.
Scribe, by Alyson Hagy (Graywolf).
The Florentine scribe Niccolò Niccoli (d.
Every village had at least one scribe.
